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43237

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has carried out any form of assessment of the number of state-funded schools where religious items or articles of clothing form part of the school's (a) pupil and (b) staff uniform policy.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	192224
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education has not conducted any assessment of the number of state-funded schools where religious items or clothing form part of the uniform policy for pupils or staff.</p><p>It is for the governing body of each school to decide whether pupils should wear a uniform, and if so, what that should be. We do, however, expect schools to have full regard to their responsibilities under equalities law, and to act sensibly, fairly and flexibly in the interests of all their students in setting their school uniform policy.</p><p>Any dress code for school staff is an issue for the employer, whether that is the governing body or the local authority. As part of the general terms and conditions of employment agreed with employees, employers should consider an appropriate dress code, relevant to the individual setting, taking into account the requirements of the post and having proper regard to equality and diversity considerations.</p><p>School uniform guidance can be found at:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-uniform" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-uniform</a></p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 20/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

43529

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of (a) converter academies and (b) maintained schools achieved a lower percentage of students achieving five GCSE A* to C grades than the previous year in (i) 2010-11, (ii) 2011-12 and (iii) 2012-13.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	192426
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2014 answer text <p>The requested information is publicly available in the 2010/11[1], 2011/12[2] and 2012/13[3] performance tables.</p><p>[1] <a href="http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/download_data.html" target="_blank">http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/download_data.html</a></p><p>[2] <a href="http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/2012/download_data.html" target="_blank">http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/2012/download_data.html</a></p><p>[3] <a href="http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/2011/download_data.html" target="_blank">http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/2011/download_data.html</a></p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 20/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

43525

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of (a) converter academies and (b) maintained schools achieved a lower percentage of students achieving five GCSE A* to C grades including English and mathematics than the previous year in (i) 2010-11, (ii) 2011-12 and (iii) 2012-13.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	192424
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2014 answer text <p>The requested information is published in the 2012/13 performance tables[1].</p><p>[1]<a href="http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/download_data.html" target="_blank">http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/download_data.html</a></p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 20/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

43524

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of (a) converter academies and (b) maintained schools achieved a higher percentage of students achieving five GCSE A* to C grades than the previous year in (i) 2010-11, (ii) 2011-12 and (iii) 2012-13.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	192425
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2014 answer text <p>The requested information is publicly available in the 2010/11[1], 2011/12[2] and 2012/13[3] performance tables.</p><p>[1] <a href="http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/download_data.html" target="_blank">http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/download_data.html</a></p><p>[2] <a href="http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/2012/download_data.html" target="_blank">http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/2012/download_data.html</a></p><p>[3] <a href="http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/2011/download_data.html" target="_blank">http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/2011/download_data.html</a></p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 20/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

43523

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of (a) converter academies and (b) maintained schools achieved a higher percentage of students achieving five GCSE A* to C grades including English and mathematics than the previous year in (i) 2010-11, (ii) 2011-12 and (iii) 2012-13.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	192423
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2014 answer text <p>The requested information is published in the 2012/13 performance tables[1].</p><p>[1] <a href="http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/download_data.html" target="_blank">http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/download_data.html</a></p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 20/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

43362

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what education funding per pupil was in (a) Staffordshire and (b) Brent in each year since 2009-10.
	tabling member constituency	Tamworth
	tabling member printed	Christopher Pincher
	uin	192300
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2014 answer text <p>The total per pupil revenue funding figures for financial years 2009-10 to 2012-13 for Staffordshire and Brent are provided in the table below.The figures are for all funded pupils aged 3-15 and are in cash terms:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Average revenue per pupil funding <br />(Dedicated schools grant (DSG) + grants cash £)</p></td><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>2012-13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Staffordshire</p></td><td><p>4,460</p></td><td><p>4,720</p></td><td><p>4,650</p></td><td><p>4,650</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Brent</p></td><td><p>5,990</p></td><td><p>6,280</p></td><td><p>6,240</p></td><td><p>6,240</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><br />Notes:<br /><br />1. For financial years 2009 to 2011 this covers funding through the dedicated schools grant, school standards grant, school standards grant (personalisation) and standards fund; it excludes grants which are not allocated at local authority level.<br /><br />2. Figures have been rounded to the nearest £10.<br /><br />3. In financial year 2011 to 2012, most separate grants were mainstreamed in to the DSG. The exceptions were grants that were time-limited and planned to end in financial year 2010 to 2011.</p><p>4. Figures do not include pupil premium. Details of which are shown separately.</p><p>5.The DSG plus grants figures for financial years 2009-10 to 2010-11 do not include funding from the Young People's Learning Agency to ensure that figures are on the basis of funding for pupils aged 3 to 15 and are comparable with figures for financial years 2011-12 to 2012-13.</p><p>6. Sources: <a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20131216163513/http:/www.education.gov.uk/schools/adminandfinance/financialmanagement/schoolsrevenuefunding" target="_blank">http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20131216163513/http:/www.education.gov.uk/schools/adminandfinance/financialmanagement/schoolsrevenuefunding</a></p><p><a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20131216163513/http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/adminandfinance/financialmanagement/schoolsrevenuefunding/archive/a0014213/dedicated-schools-grant-allocations-for-2008-11" target="_blank">http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20131216163513/http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/adminandfinance/financialmanagement/schoolsrevenuefunding/archive/a0014213/dedicated-schools-grant-allocations-for-2008-11</a></p><p><br />The DSG plus grants figures for financial years 2009-10 to 2010-11 do not include funding from the Young People's Learning Agency to ensure that figures are on the basis of funding for pupils aged 3 to 15 and are comparable with figures for financial years 2011-12 to 2012-13.</p><p>In financial year 2013-14, the DSG was reformed to allocate funding to local authorities in three blocks (schools, early years and high needs) and so figures are not comparable to previous years. The schools block per pupil unit of funding (SBUF), which does not cover funding for early years or high needs, was £4,310 for Staffordshire and £5,066 for Brent. The early years block per pupil units of funding in 2013-14 were £3,515 for Staffordshire and £5,930 for Brent. In 2013-14, high needs funding was no longer allocated on a per-pupil basis. However total high needs block funding for the year was £57.483 million for Staffordshire and £53.7 million for Brent.</p><p>In addition, since financial year 2011-12 schools have received pupil premium per qualifying pupil, which targets funding at pupils from the most deprived backgrounds to help them achieve their full potential. In 2012-13, coverage was expanded to include pupils known to have been eligible for free school meals at any point in the last six years. The amounts per pupil for each type of pupil are shown in following table in cash terms:</p><p><br /><br /></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Pupil premium per pupil (£)</p></td><td><p>2011-2012</p></td><td><p>2012-2013</p></td><td><p>2013-2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Free school meal secondary pupils and looked-after children</p></td><td><p>488</p></td><td><p>623</p></td><td><p>900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Free school meal primary pupil</p></td><td><p>488</p></td><td><p>623</p></td><td><p>953</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Service children</p></td><td><p>200</p></td><td><p>250</p></td><td><p>300</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 20/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher

43363

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the implementation of The School Information (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2012. [R]
	tabling member constituency	Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
	tabling member printed	Mr Nick Gibb
	uin	192341
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2014 answer text <p>Ofsted routinely checks school websites before inspections. If a parent, or other party, believes that a school is not complying with the requirements, they are entitled to raise this with the governing body. If their complaint is not resolved and they believe that the school has failed to discharge its duty or acted unreasonably, they can raise their complaint with the Secretary of State.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 20/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb

43060

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Statement of 13 March 2014 by the Minister for Schools, Official Report, columns 427-42, on school funding, whether any of the funding announced will generate a Barnett consequential.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	192042
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2014 answer text <p>The Government has agreed to provide £350 million in 2015-16 to the least fairly-funded local authorities in England. We are able to achieve this without any local authority receiving a cut to its per-pupil schools budget.</p><p>The Department for Education intends to find the majority of the £350 million from within its existing protected schools budget as determined at the Spending Round in June 2013, with additional money from the Treasury as required. Any funding provided by the Treasury will be agreed by the end of 2014 and will attract Barnett consequentials in the normal way.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 20/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

43236

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 13 February 2014, Official Report, column 816W, on community schools, how many maintained schools his Department believes to be underperforming.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	192222
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2014 answer text Of the 4,125 maintained mainstream secondary schools, 154 were classified as underperforming in the 2012/13 academic year. Of the 15,351 maintained mainstream primary schools, 767 were classified as underperforming in the 2012/13 academic year. answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 20/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

43378

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools in Brigg and Goole constituency participate in the Schools Direct Programme.
	tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
	tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
	uin	192277
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2014 answer text <p>Our records show that there are no School Direct lead schools located in the parliamentary constituency of Brigg and Goole.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>However, many School Direct lead schools work in partnership with other schools to deliver the programme.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 20/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

43532

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children in (a) Pendle constituency and (b) Lancashire were eligible for but did not claim free school meals in the latest period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Pendle
	tabling member printed	Andrew Stephenson
	uin	192429
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education routinely collects information on pupils who are both eligible for and claiming free school meals. This information is published in the ‘Schools, Pupils and their Characteristics, January 2013' Statistical First Release[1]. Information on the number of pupils who are eligible for free school meals but do not claim them is not collected by the Department.</p><p>The Department has published a research paper ‘Pupils not claiming free school meals: 2013'[2] which presents estimates of the numbers and proportions of pupils who are entitled to receive free school meals but are not claiming. The paper compares registration rates for children aged between 4 and 15 and highlights regions and local authorities where under-registration rates are high. Figures from this paper show the under-registration rate for Lancashire local authority is 6% compared with an England average of 11%.</p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2013</a> <br />[2] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupils-not-claiming-free-school-meals-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupils-not-claiming-free-school-meals-2013</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 20/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson

43368

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of state-funded schools that have opened since September 2011 have changed their headteacher since opening.
	tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
	tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
	uin	192322
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 20/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

43377

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of state-funded schools have changed their head teacher since September 2011.
	tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
	tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
	uin	192316
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally. </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 20/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

43375

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of maintained schools that have opened since September 2011 have changed their headteacher since that date.
	tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
	tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
	uin	192313
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 20/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

43371

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of maintained schools have changed their headteacher since September 2011.
	tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
	tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
	uin	192308
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 20/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

43531

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils in (a) Brigg and Goole constituency and (b) Yorkshire and Humber continued into (i) further education, (ii) higher education and (iii) apprenticeships in the last five years for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
	tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
	uin	192394
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2014 answer text <p>Destination Measures data, following key stage 4 and key stage 5, are published at local authority level for the years 2009/10 and 2010/11. Parliamentary constituency level data are published for 2010/11 only.</p><p>The requested data, for the available years, are shown in the attached tables.</p><p>The information is taken from Statistical First Release data, which is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-destinations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-destinations</a></p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 20/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock attachment 1 file name Copy of 192394 Sent to Parliament 20.03.14.xls title Destination measures - Brigg and Goole
	tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

43374

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what training schemes his Department has in place to enable teachers to support children who have type one diabetes.
	tabling member constituency	Copeland
	tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
	uin	192298
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2014 answer text <p>The training of school staff to support pupils with medical conditions is a matter for schools. However, the Department for Education fully expects them to be aware of and understand the needs of pupils with medical conditions such as diabetes, and to put arrangements in place to provide effective support. This should include ensuring that school staff receive suitable training.</p><p>From September 2014, there will be a new duty, (introduced in the Children and Families Act 2014), on governing bodies of maintained schools (and proprietors of academies) to make arrangements to support pupils at school with medical conditions and to have regard to statutory guidance. The guidance (upon which we have consulted publicly) will set out the requirements on schools to support children with medical conditions, which we would expect them to apply to conditions like diabetes. The guidance will set out expectations in respect of staff training.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 20/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed

43239

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of free schools approved to date are faith schools.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	192226
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2014 answer text <p>37 of 142 open mainstream free schools have a faith designation (26%); this compares to 34% of all state-funded mainstream schools.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 20/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

43234

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of (a) converter academies and (b) maintained schools received a (i) higher and (ii) lower Ofsted inspection result than they had received in their previous inspections in (A) 2010-11, (B) 2011-12 and (C) 2012-13.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	192215
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2014 answer text <p>In January this year, the Department for Education published an analysis of Ofsted inspection outcomes for converter academies and maintained schools in the report ‘Performance of converter academies in 2012 to 2013'[1]. It showed that in 2012/13 converter academies previously rated as either ‘good' or 'satisfactory' were more likely to improve their rating than local authority (LA) maintained mainstream schools, and also showed converter academies previously rated as ‘outstanding' were more likely to retain that rating than LA maintained mainstream schools.</p><p> </p><p>[1]<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/performance-of-converter-academies-in-2012-to-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/performance-of-converter-academies-in-2012-to-2013</a></p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 20/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

43373

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance his Department gives to teachers and teaching support staff on supporting children with type one diabetes.
	tabling member constituency	Copeland
	tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
	uin	192297
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2014 answer text <p>Non-statutory guidance, ‘Managing Medicines in Schools and Early Years Settings, is available to schools to help them manage medicines and supporting children with medical needs.</p><p>From September 2014, there will be a new duty, (introduced in the Children and Families Act 2014), on governing bodies of maintained schools (and proprietors of academies) to make arrangements to support pupils at school with medical conditions and to have regard to statutory guidance. The guidance (upon which we have consulted publicly) will set out the requirements on schools to support children with medical conditions, which we would expect them to apply to conditions like diabetes.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 20/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed

43241

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what contact his Department has had with the largest 10 academy chains to confirm whether they plan to make an application for a free school in the next (a) year, (b) two years and (c) three years.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	192223
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education has not asked academy chains to confirm whether they plan to make any applications for a free school in the next year, two years or three years.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 20/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

43238

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many representations he has received from local authorities indicating that the local authority does not require a proposed free school; and whether this has led to any proposed free school applications being withdrawn.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	192225
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not hold this information centrally and collecting it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p>Under Section 9 of the Academies Act 2010, the Department writes to local authorities where a free school is being proposed to seek their views on the impact that establishing the school would likely have on existing schools and colleges.</p><p>Local authorities often take this opportunity to indicate whether they support or oppose the establishment of a free school.</p><p>Any representations from local authorities are considered by my Rt hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education before he decides to enter into a funding agreement with the relevant academy trust.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 20/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

43522

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children were put up for adoption by Norfolk County Council social services against the wishes of their birth family in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	North West Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Mr Henry Bellingham
	uin	192352
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2014 answer text <p>Information on looked-after children for whom the local authority has made the decision that the child should be placed for adoption and the number of children who were placed for adoption at 31 March by Norfolk County Council social services without the consent of their parent or guardian can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption</a></p><p>The Department for Education started collecting information on children placed for adoption broken down by parental consent from local authorities in England in 2007; therefore, information prior to this period is not available. Information on children for whom the local authority has made the decision that they should be placed for adoption is only available from 2009.</p><p>The Department does not collect information on applications to foster or adopt. However, Ofsted collect a range of information on the numbers and profile of foster carers and foster places and placements, in both local authority and independent services, through their annual collection of data relating to adoption services. 2013 Ofsted data can be found at:</p><p><a href="http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/resources/fostering-quality-assurance-and-data-forms-2012-13-first-statistical-release" target="_blank">http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/resources/fostering-quality-assurance-and-data-forms-2012-13-first-statistical-release</a></p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 192353 question first answered 20/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	1441 label Biography information for Lord Bellingham

43530

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many applications to foster or adopt were made by relatives of the child's parents in (a) North West Norfolk constituency, (b) Norfolk and (c) the UK in each of the last 10 years; and how many such applications were successful in each area and in each year.
	tabling member constituency	North West Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Mr Henry Bellingham
	uin	192353
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2014 answer text <p>Information on looked-after children for whom the local authority has made the decision that the child should be placed for adoption and the number of children who were placed for adoption at 31 March by Norfolk County Council social services without the consent of their parent or guardian can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption</a></p><p>The Department for Education started collecting information on children placed for adoption broken down by parental consent from local authorities in England in 2007; therefore, information prior to this period is not available. Information on children for whom the local authority has made the decision that they should be placed for adoption is only available from 2009.</p><p>The Department does not collect information on applications to foster or adopt. However, Ofsted collect a range of information on the numbers and profile of foster carers and foster places and placements, in both local authority and independent services, through their annual collection of data relating to adoption services. 2013 Ofsted data can be found at:</p><p><a href="http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/resources/fostering-quality-assurance-and-data-forms-2012-13-first-statistical-release" target="_blank">http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/resources/fostering-quality-assurance-and-data-forms-2012-13-first-statistical-release</a></p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 192352 question first answered 20/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	1441 label Biography information for Lord Bellingham

43372

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of free schools have changed their headteacher since opening.
	tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
	tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
	uin	192321
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 20/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter